The Lacquer Legion: Adoration

We are now at the second month of The Lacquer Legion challenge, and let me tell you- I'm so glad I joined! This challenge prompts are so wide and unspecific, that I struggle to come up with the right mani to fit it. As I did before, I've decided to go literal on the subject, and when last time I had the reinvention of the butterfly shape, this time my nails consist of a crowd filled with adoration to their idol.

As to who or what this idol is, this is all up to you! The vision I had in mind is the cheering crowd at a concert, or maybe a party of some sort, or better yet- a DJ's concert that combines it all together. To demonstrate the colorful stage light I played around with strokes of different glow in the dark polishes, and on top of those, I added the crowd silhouette. Unfortunately, the crowd isn't really visible in the glow mode.

My base color is Wow 350, and above it are 4 BK's glow in the dark polishes- 01, 04, 07 and 09. The polishes does glow in different colors, with the main difference being in the purple polish, and yet on my glow in the dark photos [as in real life], it all seems to glow in the same color, so the colorful affect is lost. For the crowd silhouette as well as the French tip on my thumb I used Wow 393.

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Purple hexagons meet nubs

I don't know why, but this title sounds like some sort of a summary to a  Sci-Fi-Romance movie. Imagine it- a purple hexagons, with his very own pare of legs, walks into a bar and seeing miss nub sitting at the corner. Her well moisturized cuticles and smooth surface catch his look, and---
Ok, I'll stop right there, and we'll move on to the manicure before someone decides to hospitalize me somewhere.

I tried stamping again, because you know what they say- practice makes perfect! Well, the thumb on my left hand was the best of my many tries. For some reason, the stamping on my ring finger insisted on smudging every single time I tried to repeat on it, so I ended up just letting it be.

Also, this time I actually made the same nail art on both hands! If you knew me IRL, you'd know how rare that phenomenon is. Many times I even go with my right hand polish-naked. Yes. I am THAT lazy. Kinda justifies the blog's name, doesn't it?
So in order to celebrate that, I've decided to include some very rare (and you better appreciate it!), right hand photos.

The base color of all my nails is Chic I lilac you. I stamped using Bundle Monster BM-422 and Life 337, which is a nice shimmery purple. The glitter topper is Wow 368. I added a stud from Forever 21. I actually quite liked the fact that the black stud breaks the overall purple look a bit, but doesn't disturb it.

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31DC2013: Day 22, inspired by a song

When I've heard "song inspired" I imidiatly wanted to go with the one and only, that makes me go nuts in lipsing, Britney Spears. Now, I wanted to go with some old school classic such as 'Baby one more time', but ended up going for the song 'Holg it against me', because it's video has alot of sceance I could take Insperation of.

So here is the full on manicure, and from here I'm gonna show you each finger with a screen shot of the insperation for it.

Starting with the pinky and the thumb, where I took inspiration from the splattered dress. The white here is Chic white flag. Blue is Chic bora bora, green is Chic crazy in love, purple is Life 328 and orange is Life 299. I mixed those 4 colors with some nail polish remover [Acetone does not work!] and blow the brush to get paint on my nails.

On to the ring finger I have Britney lips. I must say, I did a horrible job capturing it, but oh well.
Black is Chic black fog, Pink is a mix of Laka 73 and Chic white flag, white is again Chic white flag and red is Life strawberry.

My middle finger represent Britney's CRAZY neon necklace, which I would love to get my hand on. No idea what will go with it tho.
Nude is Chic sand, Silver is Chic diamonds, and yellow is Ga-de california sun.

My pointer is an abstract of the fight between Britney's black self and Britney's red self. I uses saran warp to create this effect. Red is Life strawberry and black is Chic black fog.

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31DC2013: Day 16, tribal print nails

I still haven't missed a post, but let me tell you, it's very tiring. Man, I should have thought it through deeper.
But on to the positive side- I'm getting to do stuff I wanted to do for a long time, and this is one of them, Ikat print!

OK, I'll be the first to admit that it didn't turn out that great, the black out lines in particular. But I blame the stiff brush and the dried polish, and leave you with a promise to try this manicure again at some point.
I followed Kayla's tutorial, so check that out for an explanation.

My base color is Ga-de mellow yellow, white is from the nails supreme set, plum is Chic simply you, and black is Chic black fog.

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31DC2013: Day 15, delicate nails

It's my birthday you guys!
I know I'm pushing the limits here, but give me a break, a girl can party in her birthday, right?
Since the begining of the challange I was wondering about what I'm gonna do for this special day. And I came up with something both delicate and festive, bunting!

I started with a grey base color, because this shade specifically is very cool. I don't know why, I just like it alot. Any how, I drew black lines on top of it, and went with my go-to pastel rainbow colors. In order to complete the look I added my number of years of existence on my thumb, and that was it!

The grey is Life 269, black is Chic black fog. Coral-pinky shade is Ga-de peach sorbet, yellow is Ga-de california sun, green is Chic crazy in love, Blue is Life 329, and the purple is Chic I lilac you.

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31DC2013: Day 9, rainbow nails

I have to admit, I wasn't too excited about today's challange. For me rainbow is either too childish or the homosexual flag, to be honest with you. After coming up, and canceling, tons of ideas, I decided to simply taste the rainbow!

Oh... yeah! It's a skittles mani! And boy, this mani was a rough one! My nails ended up too short for this, and if you'll look closely, you'll see that I dropped the "e" in the word. BUT- I am very proud of it, and the rainbow itself came out great, which is why it's good I took some pictures before adding the text.

So my pointer is obviously the original flavored package, while the other nails supposed to resemble the skittles them self. Also, smart me didn't bother to wait till the text is fully dried, and massed it up with the top coat.

And on to the color list-
The red is Life strawberry, the orange is Life 299, the yellow is Ga-de california sun, green is Chic crazy in love, and the blue on the logo is Chic bora bora. The purple on my pinky is Ga-de purple empire, while the one used on my ring finger is Life 328. Don't ask why.

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31DC2013: Day 6, purple nails

Day 6, the week is almost over!
As I said in day 3, I don't like this design. At all. It turned out so much different then what I thought it will look like, and I ended up hating them, mostly for causing me to remove the yellow nail art :/

After the preparation to the orange nail art, I re-discovered my true love to the nude shade I own. It's just the perfect color for my skin tone! So after that I decided to go with yet another nude-based nail art.
This manicure is made using only dotting tool, and so at least I didn't put to much effort into it.

The base color is my re-newed love- Chic sand. The purple is Life 337.

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